Target: Mr. Charlie McConalogue, Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Ireland
Goal: Enforce the immediate closure of food factory where horses allegedly died under cruel conditions.
Hundreds of protesters gathered outside Shannonside Foods Ltd in Straffan, Kildare, in response to disturbing footage aired in an RTE Investigates documentary. The footage allegedly showed serious animal welfare abuses at the facility. Protesters carried placards and called for the immediate closure of the factory, with some hanging ribbons on the gates to remember the horses that allegedly died under terrible circumstances.
The abattoir is currently under a legal notice from the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, and no animals have reportedly entered the food chain from Shannonside Foods in the past three weeks. Investigations are reportedly underway across Europe into suspected illegal slaughtering and traceability defects among horses killed for human consumption.
Agriculture Minister Charlie McConalogue has vowed that those responsible will face the full rigour of the law, condemning the reported mistreatment as abhorrent and distressing. Horse Racing Ireland and Minister for Finance Michael McGrath have also expressed their outrage and urged anyone with information to report it to the authorities. Demand a thorough investigation and immediate action despite Shannonside Foods rejecting the claims made in the documentary.
PETITION LETTER:
Dear Mr. McConalogue,
Recent footage aired in an RTE Investigates documentary has reportedly revealed serious animal welfare abuses at Shannonside Foods Ltd in Straffan, Kildare. The disturbing footage has led to widespread public outcry and calls for the immediate closure of the facility. Protesters have reportedly gathered outside the factory, highlighting the urgent need for action.
The abattoir is currently under a legal notice from the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, with no animals reportedly entering the food chain from Shannonside Foods in the past three weeks. Investigations are reportedly underway across Europe into suspected illegal slaughtering and traceability defects among horses killed for human consumption.
Your commitment to ensuring that those responsible face the full rigour of the law is commendable. However, immediate action is necessary to close the facility and prevent further alleged abuses. We urge you to enforce the immediate closure of Shannonside Foods and conduct a thorough investigation into the reported animal welfare abuses. Protecting the welfare of these animals is of utmost importance, and swift legal action is essential.
Sincerely,
[Your Name Here]
Photo credit: RTE Investigates
No respect for lives! Plese enforce the immediate closure of Shannonside Foods and conduct a thorough investigation into the reported animal welfare abuses. JUSTICE FOR THESE PRECIOUS BEINGS!
It is so disgusting beyond words
We’re their voice
This is outrageous, life in prison, no parole for everyone who took part in this. Makes me sick, personally eye for an eye suits me just fine !!
TOTALLY AGREE ANN BUT BETTER YET EXACUTE THESE LESS THAN HUMAN BEINGS SICK PHYCOPATHS THIS IS THE ONLY WAY ANIMAL ABUSE WILL STOP!!!
jail all of them
STOP this EXTREME CRIME. SHUT DOWN ALL SLAUGHTERHOUSES AND GO VEGAN!! This is the only way to heal this planet, both environmentally and morally!! Planet Earth has been converted into one big slaughterhouse, where bloodshed is the moral norm!! Don’t talk about peace and democracy as long as you have a tortured animal on your plate! HYPOCRITES!!
The whole “human” world is rotten!
Slaughter that kind of humane beasts too in the same way as these innocent horses! It’s getting worse and worse! There are far too many vermin on this earth. They must be destroyed. No use at all?
Sickening.
This has been going on for DECADES ALL OVER THE WORLD. Disgusting.
Wicked bastards
PLEASE SHUT THIS DOWN AND RESCUE THESE INNOCENT AND HELPLESS HORSES!! THEY NEED LAWS TO PROTECT THEM FROM THESE MONSTERS AND PROSECUTE THEM AND LOCK THEM UP AND KEEP THEM AWAY FROM ALL ANIMALS!!! END THIS MURDERING OF INNOCENT ANIMALS!!
Decent people who live near this place.Free the horses and burn the place down.If possible beat the retarded filth that work there.
Bravo !!!
Why do prosecutors need to be told to DO THEIR JOBS??? That’s at the very least! Why are cops, prosecutors and judges not irate about this crap? Why do they do nothing? How do any of them – the people doing this, the cops, the whole “judicial” system – look at themselves in the mirror? I’d say the owner and workers get beat to death immediately! That’s the only punishment for true justice!
You disgusting sick ungrateful barbaric bastards.
YOU DON’T FIND ENOUGH DEAD ANIMALS IN GROCERS!
After all that horses have done for this planet…this is the thanks they get.!!!!
SHUT THIS HELL HOLE DOWN AND PROSECUTE ALL WHO PARTICIPATED OR LOOKED ON TO THE FULL. AGGRAVATED FELONIES!!!
JUDICIAL SYSTEM GIVE A DAMN!!!!!
HOPE AND PRAY IT ALL COMES AROUND!!!!
OMG this makes me sick!! I love horses and the thought of them being slaughtered for any reason is despicable!! This place needs to be shut down permanently and the people in charge should be prosecuted to the fullest extent that Irish law will allow.
Most of you don’t seem to realise that MOST people don’t give a toss about the suffering of others. If they haven’t gone vegan, that’s because they couldn’t care less about the suffering THEY cause – they would rather silence anybody who tells them what they are doing, than change their behaviour. If you don’t realise that most other people are monsters, then you are probably a monster yourself. I don’t know what the solution is – but asking people nicely to ‘change’ isn’t going to work, because most people are literally sociopaths, and can’t feel the suffering of others. What happens on farms and in slaughterhouses is beyond evil, yet most people actively support it and pay for it every day, and couldn’t care less.
BUT FOR THE ARROGANCE OF THE HUMAN THESE LOVELY SOULS AND ALL THE OTHER ANIMALS OF THIS PLANET WOULD LIVE THEIR BEST LIVES!!!!!!!!
I hope those who have eaten the horse meat will never manage to go to the loo!
The pieces of garbage that did this need to be euthanized immediately.
I TOTALLY AGREE WITH…. Maria Lavorato
“You disgusting sick ungrateful barbaric bastards.
YOU DON’T FIND ENOUGH DEAD ANIMALS IN GROCERS!
After all that horses have done for this planet…this is the thanks they get.!!!!
SHUT THIS HELL HOLE DOWN AND PROSECUTE ALL WHO PARTICIPATED OR LOOKED ON TO THE FULL. AGGRAVATED FELONIES!!!
JUDICIAL SYSTEM GIVE A DAMN!!!!!
HOPE AND PRAY IT ALL COMES AROUND!!!!”
KILL’EM ALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
HUMANITY STINKS BADLY! SHAME ON THEM! BARBARIC